Monthly Archives:September 2013

New Year Eve St Ives 2008
New Year in St Ives has become one of the town’s most famous celebrations with colourful street parties, fireworks and a bizarre mix of fancy dress.
St Ives comes alive as the evening celebrat...

Malcolm Buchanan - Traffic in Historic Towns
Talk
Malcolm showed how the car has dominated the pattern of urban growth and development sometimes resulting in neighbouring towns merging into one. He also drove home the...

The St Ives Poetry Circle @ the library.
Poetry circle
Meets in the Angela Diggle meeting Room on the first Friday of the month from 1:30pm - 4:00pm.
All welcome to attend. Bring a favourite poem to read or just com...

Tate St Ives Autumn 2012 "The Far and the Near"
This exhibition reinvestigates the histories of the St Ives colony in the contexts of international modernism and contemporary practice.
Examining the changing legacies...

St Ives School of Painting October 2010
When the St Ives School of Painting opened in April 1938, it was the fulfilment of a vow made by two young officers who had served in the trenches some twenty years earlier. They ...

St Ives Raft Race 2010
Taking place every mid august, the St Ives Raft Race is a chaotic scenes can be viewed in the harbour of St Ives during the Raft Race.
This is a great event to witness from all along The Wharf ...

St Piran Day 2011
St Piran Day started as one of the many tinners’ holidays observed by the tin miners of Cornwall. Other miners’ holidays of a similar nature include Picrous Day and Chewidden Thursday.
“St. Piran’s ...

St Piran Day preparation February 2011.
St Piran's Day started as one of the many tinners' holidays observed by the tin miners of Cornwall. Other miners' holidays of a similar nature include Picrous Day and Chewidden Th...